Office 365 Group Not Showing In Outlook

Having recently rolled out Teams to a client, noticed that there was some issues with newly created Teams groups not showing up in the Outlook 2016 client.

Feedback received from Microsoft was that a new feature was rolled out in June 2018. Previously all Teams groups appeared in “Groups” in Outlook, but there was some requirements to be able to control which Teams groups appeared in Outlook.

Exchange Online – Send As Permissions Not Working

A customer recently contacted us because they had problems with Send As permissions not working for their Exchange Online environment. Whilst this was a relatively simple fix and a known issue, thought it worthwhile documenting it for some of our other customers as well

But you may notice that users have issues logging into SfB clients – the web-client will work OK, but on the desktop client they are continually prompted for credentials. You need to enable Modern Authentication

Lets Do Azure MFA

There appears to be a bit of confusions, especially in the small-medium sized businesses who are just started their cloud journey, about what Azure MFA and Office 365 contains and what your entitlements are.

Azure AD Roles & Administrators

Starting in July 2018, Microsoft added some new cool features to help Administrators review roles and permissions in Azure AD. This included a complete list of the built-in roles and a description of what they enabled the member to do, especially making it a lot easier to answer questions such as “How many Global Admins do we have?” or “What permissions does my account have?”

Count Objects in AD OUs – Powershell

A recent request we had was to count the number of objects in each OU in AD, so we could identify which ones were not being used any more. To achieve this we used a PowerShell script, and exported to a csv file.

About Us

We are Cloud Experts as a Service. But we also offer much more than just Cloud Experts. Understanding that some companies will already have invested time and money in their existing IT solutions and infrastructure, saying “you should move to the cloud” is not always applicable. As a company, we want to help you get the best from your existing IT and infrastructure, whilst also giving you a roadmap for your cloud journey.

Our company has been running since 2015, but we have almost 20 years experience managing IT solutions and infrastructure, and in the last 5 years moving workloads to the Microsoft Cloud.